Seriously? C'mon, privvies were the mainstay in the oil patch until everything had to be hauled offsite.
Only they were mostly steel, drafty, and even less 'fun' than a wood one when the mercury got below -30.
I also remember toilets that had a 5 gallon tanks that could handle most anything...
Heh. Green Rooms... That's the vernacular for porta-pottys hereabouts, because the original ones were green... I have seen the inside of many a green room on construction sites.
Funny story about that... My partner and I were up on a jobsite... It was terrible cold... -20 or so, and it was late... maybe 10 at night... We had a paint room rigged up in the basement, but as cold as it was, drying times were real bad, and we were trying to get another coat on it before going home...
Well, my partner went out to use the green room... He'd had to go for a while, but had been holding back... You see, at those temps the tidy-bowl freezes over, and there was a mountain of... stuff... built up on top... To the absolute height wherein sitting down was risky.
Well, it seems my partner's... um... contribution... was the one that broke the camel's back, as it were, wherein the tidy bowl iceberg (and other contents) broke loose and rolled over...
He came down to the paint room with tidybowl stains all the way up to his neck, and simply stated, "We have to go home now."
Well, needless to say, it was an amazing miracle that there was a big pile of moving blankets to wrap him in for the ride home... Because it's damn cold in the back of a pickup at 20 below...
True story.